I've been in Devon for several days now, staying with my sister Clare. This is a very pretty part of England but I haven't had much chance to appreciate it yet because of rain and lingering jetlag. I used to get over long haul flights in about three days but this one has taken a week and I feel as if I'm only just getting back to normal. I need to go to bed early, wake up extraordinarily early and am a right Grumpy Old Woman most of the waking hours.

Communications have become difficult. I didn't realise - or had forgotten - that people here have to pay for timed local phone calls and if your host is on dial-up that puts a severe limit on the amount of time you can spend on web mail and browsing. I'm on a public computer in the Topsham library right now, paying $1.50 (about $AUS3.75) per half hour. This will probably be an ongoing problem, so my blogging might be a bit intermittent for a while!

I hope you are all well and happy. Whether I post or not, I'm thinking of you!